I picked up a tyre decal for inside the door of an ELGT today from Ford to try an legalise my 18's and to my surprise it designates the tyre size as 245 / 40 R 17 with a rim code of 8.5 J. Is this a mistake or on purpose so you can't fit 19's to them?

I picked up a tyre decal for inside the door of an ELGT today from Ford to try an legalise my 18's and to my surprise it designates the tyre size as 245 / 40 R 17 with a rim code of 8.5 J. Is this a mistake or on purpose so you can't fit 19's to them?

I picked up a tyre decal for inside the door of an ELGT today from Ford to try an legalise my 18's and to my surprise it designates the tyre size as 245 / 40 R 17 with a rim code of 8.5 J. Is this a mistake or on purpose so you can't fit 19's to them?

Hey?Thats what size rubber EL GT's had...8.5" wide rim...

But arnt they 18's not 17's?

Edit, of course they are 17's I don't know where my brain is today.....

I picked up a tyre decal for inside the door of an ELGT today from Ford to try an legalise my 18's and to my surprise it designates the tyre size as 245 / 40 R 17 with a rim code of 8.5 J. Is this a mistake or on purpose so you can't fit 19's to them?

I know they are around $600 for the 19" S03's, and the bridgestone guy reckons they wouldn't even last 20,000km cause they're that grippy.Have u had any wear problems with your SO3's? jeffb?

They're just exxy as, to get no wear out of them and no one i know has used them yet.

Mine have been going OK, they grib like s**t to a blanket, I dont know how far I have gone on them but they seem to be wearing OK, I do give them a hard time, I think they would go a bit further than 20,000k's, dunno how much past 30,000 tho.

I just put Yoko Advan V103 on my TS50 for similar money and they are no comparison really.

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